Combined tool holder and plunger.



E. D. WOODS.

COMBINED TOOL HOLDER AND PLUNGER.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. [5| 1914.

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EDWARD D. WOODS,

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OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE NEW PRODUCT 00., I-IARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

COMBINED TOOL HOLDER AND PLUNGER.

Application filed December 15, 1914.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD D. Woons, citizen of the United States, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in :1 Combined Tool Holder and Plunger; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to holders for tools required to be operated by a direct blow like, for instance, nail pullers, chisels, nailsets and the like.

In the appended drawings illustrating my device, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the device showing a nail puller removably inserted in its lower end and a plunger rod carried by the tube shown partially raised; Fig. 2 is a broken sectional side elevation of the tube or handle portion and broken View of a tool shank inserted therein; Fig. 3 is a broken view looking in the direction of arrow a of Fig. 1, except that the plunger is reversed to eject a tool; Fig. 1 is a broken view partly in section showing the plunger slightly withdrawn and the operation or position of the plunger retaining means when the device is in a certain position; and Fig. 5 is an enlarged cross sectional view of the tube handle and plunger on line 55 of Fig. 1.

The handle portion comprises the tube 1 oval in cross-section to admit the plunger rod 2 whose lower end forms the screw driver point 3, and the upper end the hammer head 4; which also serves the purposes as a handle for the plunger rod. The shoulder 5 of the tube and shoulder 6 of the plunger are stepped or offset to form the anvils or projections 7 and 8.

' When in operation with the shank 9 of the nail puller 10, or other like'tool, inserted in the lower end of the tube, the high points or anvils 7-8 are directly in line as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and l. The tools inserted in the lower end of the tube handle are, as before mentioned, of such a nature as to re quire a direct blow to operate them. This blow is furnished by the plunger which is withdrawn a suitable distance and the anvil or projection 8 of the plunger brought in forcible contact with the anvil or projec- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 10, 1916.

Serial No. 877,431.

tion 7 of the tube, and the effect of the blow is communlcated to the tool carried in the lower end of the tube. When these two anvils meet, the lower end of the plunger Wlll not contact with the upper end of the tool shank, Fig; 2, so that the tool will not be disturbed by the forcible impact of the anvils. I i

To prevent the plunger dropping out when the device is reversed, the sides of the plunger rod is provided with the grooves 11 12 with which the inner ends of the locking pins 1314l are adapted to engage. These pins may be retained in the shoulder 5 of the tube in any suitable manner. I have shown them provided with the elongated holes 15 through which pass the retaming pins 16. When the device is laid on its side, one or the other of the inner ends of the locking pins will always rest in one of the grooves 'in the plunger rod. This is fully illustrated in Fig. 4:, wherein the position of the device permits the pin 13 to drop by gravity from the groove 11, and the pin 14: to drop by gravity into the groove 12, so that, as before mentioned, one or both pins are sure to be engaged, and while thus engaged, the plunger rod cannot be entirely withdrawn, as the pins will contact with the lower ends of the grooves to prevent this. One of said ends, 17, is shown in Fig. 2.

To eject the tool from the lower end of the tube, the plunger rod is removed entirely from the tube by simply placing the device in the position shown in Fig. 1 and manually raising or holding back the locking pin that would otherwise gravitate in one of the grooves in the plunger rod. When the plunger rod is withdrawn, it is reversed and reinserted to bring the anvils out of alinement, as shown in Fig. 3, which will allow the rod to descend farther into the tube so as to enable the lower end of the rod to engage the upper end of the tool shank 9, which is then released from the tube by a direct blow of the rod. When re leased it is capable of being used either as a screw driver or hammer, but when in the tube it serves the purpose simply as a guide.

I do not wish to be confined to the exact means for retaining the plunger rod in the tube, as other well known means could-be employed; the means shown, however, are simple, cheap and effective. 1

comprising a tube adapted to receive a detachable toolat its lower end, a plunger rod adapted to be inserted in its upper end and having a handle portion and an offset shoulder to form an anvil, said tube having an offset shoulder at its upper end to form a similar anvil, said anvils adapted to be brought in forcible contact with each other to operate the tool carried by the tube and without displacing the tool.

2. A device of the character described comprising a tube, a tool detachably in- Copies of this patent may be obtained for serted in its lower end, the upper end of the tube having an offset shoulder, a reversible plunger rod having a similar offset shoulder, said tool actuated to work when the high points of the shoulders are forcibly brought in contact, and ejected from the tube when the plunger rod is reversed and the offset shoulders register with each other.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD D. WOODS.

Witnesses C. H. NEWTON, RAYMOND G. BLYDENBURGH.

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